“Three pre-season games? Who cares? I’m sure he’ll be ready for the regular season,” Vlasic said. “There’s no side effects, no consequence to what he did. He doesn’t lose one cent or doesn’t lose one regular season game for vicious slashes.”

Vlasic was pretty matter-of-fact about his own self defense argument back in April, as you can see from this CSNBayArea.com video:

Overall, it seems like Vlasic believes that it wasn’t a fair ruling.

“I don’t understand why he would get what he got and I would get what I got, but I don’t make the rules,” Vlasic said.